Throughs Define Quotes

#1. Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#2. We in Europe have great capacities.

George Papandreou

#3. I always wanted a little brother because I felt like the little brother had to do everything.

Paul Pierce

#4. The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution.

Indira Gandhi

#5. Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.

Dean Koontz

#6. I would fight every angel between us, until God said, Yes.

Shannon L. Alder

#7. There are many museums dedicated to technology, artistic endeavors, music, and that sort of thing. From that perspective, I think games really do have a place as a kind of collaborative art or a synthesis of all these various aspects into a whole, and that, in itself, can be perceived as art.

Hideo Kojima

#8. Most active mutual funds are more interested in collecting fees than in boosting returns for investors.

David F. Swensen

#9. Many hundred large volumes have been published upon this controversy: but the books of the Big-endians have been long forbidden, and the whole party rendered incapable by law of holding employments.

Jonathan Swift

#10. This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.

William Strunk Jr.